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the old malls are dying lions and I have talked about this concept on the WAN

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show for years now especially in the tech space the idea of a big box store

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is crumbling stores like Best Buy are starting to dry up and disappear but

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that doesn't mean we don't need brick and mortar shops anymore I'm here to

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show you what I personally think could be the solution let me know if uh by

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some time now going to a big box electronic store has been rather

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inconvenient they very likely don't have what you're looking for other than a few

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Diamonds in the Rough their sales staff probably have no idea what they're

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talking about and they just going to fire off specs from the same little card

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that list the price which probably isn't very low anyways the staff are also

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likely on commission and are going to try to upsell you at every opportunity

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and Gabe and forbid you ever get on the topic of a service plan because you

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might not get out alive but can you blame them they're probably underpaid

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it's very possible that these sales employees at a big box store are at or

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below the poverty line and they probably need their commission gains to get by a

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shy situation for both of you overpriced product uninformed sales staff limited

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selection aggressive and pushy sales tactics often a waste of time and money

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with a hefty side serving of frustration and annoyance this has pushed a lot of

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the techy crowd to smaller Boutique shops mom and pop stores and the on

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online etail Solutions but the showroom idea is still nice a lot of the time we

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want to see a product in person before we buy it and The Limited selection of

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the small stores and the inherent website nature of an eil

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don't allow for that type of interaction enter sin Trend the potential Saving

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Grace of brick and mortar during the reign of Amazon and various other eilers

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the focus of s Trend creative park or the S Trend Mall seems to be a showroom

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style experience for new products with a heavy focus on comfort and relaxation

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everyone I asked working in a shop was clear and open with the fact that they

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won't really be having special sales and they'll be selling everything at MSRP

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because of this they know you're probably going to go find a better price

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somewhere else especially considering there is a really cheap Tech Mall

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literally connected to the same building they don't need to be pushy for a sale

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because sales aren't their metric the companies involved ranged quite a bit

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but the main PC and mobile tech guys I noticed were MSI ASUS Intel Acer Lenovo

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tiiba HP Sony HTC Sennheiser transcend

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and Razer and that's just a few of what is actually there the floor layout was

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split into categories the first floor floor was mainly mobile the second floor

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was mostly computer hardware and accessories the third floor was cameras

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the fourth floor was more camera stuff mostly focused on accessories and also

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some speakers the fifth floor was audio file headphones the sixth floor was

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mostly like figurines with Gundams and stuff like that and the seventh floor

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was little kid and toddler stuff with some other various things scattered

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throughout like 3D printers on the second floor and this crazy cool racing

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simulator thing where you actually put on a full racing suit which didn't

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really fit me but then get into the racing simulator which cost

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$50,000 but then while you go around corners and stuff the whole thing will

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lift you around and move you and whatnot and it's super cool and you can

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apparently get an actual racing license there if you take a course and blah blah

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blah anyways that was cool and that's all the floors for now but in the future

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they'll be opening five more floors the eighth being explore the ninth being

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dine the 10th being dream the 11th being make and the 12th being show whatever

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those actually mean on the first floor Intel was set up showing a wide range of

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products and for fun they had these two racing Sims set up which were wild a

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racing chair and racing wheel hooked up to three massive TVs for an amazing

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panoramic Racing Experience again just for fun moving upstairs though is where

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the real fun started Floor 2 was definitely for me stores up here ranged

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in styles from just being a straightup boutique gallery to stuff like a Seuss

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who has a comfy couch set up where people can learn how to use their various products with trained staff that

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will also host your birthday party for you if you're a customer and give you

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cake and presents so random but also so

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awesome my favorite store however was the razor store and I'd say it was the

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most popular store there as well they had everything there from various

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potential razor gear setups along the outer walls to a a laptop land a desktop

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land and even a console fighting game area tucked away in the corner the vibe

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here was great and they had it going on with a huge range of casual tournaments

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and a super welcoming environment people are encouraged to just hang out as long

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as they would like and much like the rest of the stores in this mall the

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sales counter was Tiny and mostly ignored by patrons and staff because

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that just wasn't the point I could definitely see myself going to one of

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these little stores if there was one locally for the amateur tournaments

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especially the Hearthstone Fireside G togethers which are awesome let me know

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what you guys think in the comments down below or over on the Forum would you

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like a mall like this near you or maybe just one of the specific stores thanks

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